My Practice Philosophy
Love. Educate. Empower. Trust. Authentic Care.

Undisturbed, unhindered, gentle, and loving birth is the new paradigm of birthing. It is what women should have no matter what. What that means is you are making decisions for yourself and your health and baby. Women and birthing families are taking back their right to birth in their own strength and power. They are taking back their right to take control back of their birth and make decisions that are best for them. Birth is not a medical event in most cases. Midwives and Doctors do not need to be "delivering babies". Mothers and fathers should be the ones ushering tighter babies into his world with their Midwife standing by incase she is needed. But that is not the case in most of the country. It is a PRIORITY in my practice. It is most often turned into a medical event in current society in the hospital environment. In some circumstances a hospital is the safest place for a woman to give birth. No matter where or how a woman gives birth it will be the most powerful life changing day in her life. A powerful day that makes her a mother. My path in life is to help you through all the phases of the childbearing year with love, support, and education.

LOVE

Gentle birth heals families. A care model centered around love heals women. 40% of hospital birthing women report trauma. Instead of "managing" a birth with fear and control and instead by offering love, mutual trust, and support how would the outcomes be different? There would be a drastic change in maternity care outcomes. I have given love and care around the globe and I have been in some of the most emergent and complicated situations one could think of. But even while handling complications my approach is gentle and with love. I LOVE teaching my approaches to students, doctors, midwives, and anyone that wants to learn about gentle birth and compassionate complications.

At Growing Roots our model is based on the relationship that we build. The love and support that we all have for each other is the most important part of the Gentle Birth Compassionate Complications Model.

Educate

Educate The Client~Education is power. I am here as a guide but you are ultimately the one that has to take the journey and be on the wild ride that childbirth and parenting can be. You must educate yourself and fill yourself with the knowledge that will make you feel secure and empowered to make the decisions that effect your life and health. Always ask a lot of questions then go home and do your own research. It is not my job to tell you what you NEED to do. You should tell me what you WANT to do.

Educate The Provider~Beside client education my biggest passion is educating and training up the next generation of Midwives and Doctors. I have written and conducted numerous Midwifery and Obstetrical trainings around the globe and written practice protocols that are used worldwide. My educational trainings are based around handling complications in low resource settings. My mission is to teach effective communication, safe advanced skills, love and compassion. I teach not only the clinical side but I place much emphasis on communication, empathy, and love. Knowing how to handle complications safely, accurately, with love and compassion and without trauma is something every Midwife and Doctor should be competent in.

Empowered

Empowerment comes from within. Only you can empower yourself and draw the strength from deep inside that it takes for a healthy and successful birth. My role as a Midwife is to encourage you with education, evidence based research, love, and support. This way YOU have the tools for empowered decision making that you know is right for you and your family. My job is to walk the path WITH you so that YOU can be THE LEADER IN YOUR CARE AND IN YOUR BIRTH.

Trust

Trust is something that has to be gained and should be mutual between Midwife and client. We have to trust each other and work as a team and as a community for the safest and most empowered birth possible. You have to trust in your body to carry and birth your baby in the most natural way possible. You have to trust that YOUR BODY IS NOT BROKEN. You have to trust that in birth you can not plan everything and have to have faith. Trusting birth has to include trusting that the plan is not always what you had in mind. But you know that you made the best informed and educated decisions possible.

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Authentic

I have given care to so many amazing humans around the globe. The customs, practices, and traditions may change but my care always stays the same. I am always learning and open to what my clients have to teach me. I will always use love, compassion, and empathy as my guide with every person that I work with. Your care will always be real and authentic. I will always have room for your customs, traditions, needs, and desires. And I will always put those needs first. If there is one thing I do not do its give cookie cuter care.

God created you perfectly for birth

Society depicts birth as miserable, awful, traumatic, emergent, life threatening, torture , and the worst pain ever. That is not what I see. I see love, honor, respect, power, empowerment, pleasure, ecstatic births, and painless births. That is what society and hospital inductions and augmentations have created. Hospital managed birth. There is no room for physiological birth in most cases. After many years of that the new generation of OB's and CNM's have never seen a natural normal physiological birth. Everyone births the same way and that becomes the norm. A almost 40% csection rate should NEVER be the norm. On top of that the modern world we live in greatly increases the complication rate within the medical model. Think for a moment what that does to society. Society as a whole is failing women and pushing them into a birth where she is jut the vessel. It is changing the way people connect, love, and trust. Birth trauma can last a lifetime.

I believe that God created the birthing woman's body perfectly for birth. The design in perfect. But the way society treats birthing women is not. Love and respect is the way we need to treat women and support them in childbirth. Yes of course there are complications and csections happen and home birth turn into hospital birth or csections. But in most of those cases it's not the woman's body failing it is the system that doesn't support birthing women's needs.